Post #231 "Why Doesn't It Work?"

Why doesn't it work?

We've tried everything.

It seems that all through history we have tried and failed.

Each age, each generation has thought that they had the answers.

We have tried the extremes and all the in between,

We have fought and killed and we have pledged undying love.

But has it worked?

Are we any closer to our goal?

Is the world we have created any closer to being safe,

safe, that is, for all its inhabitants?

Are we safe from tyranny and unjust laws?

Do we share and share alike our bounty?

Are all people equal,

even those we consider our enemies,

even those we judge to be non-human,

even those that claim a share in provisions
 that they have not earned but that we have worked hard for?

 

What of God?

Does 'God' work?

Has God brought about the Kingdom of heaven on earth?
Under God, have we become a world of Peace, of Hope, of Love?
Do we love our neighbor and does our neighbor love us?

History is the story of all that we have tried to do and tried to be.
What can we do to make us become what we desire to be?
Early on we came up with the idea of God.
Somehow God was to be the created version of that Reality which we denied.
In our determination to remove the Other of Reality, we removed anything that
was not our Self.
Of course, we will never know if we removed ourselves from Reality or removed
Reality from ourselves.
And---does it make a difference?
You darn right, it sure does make a difference.
If we have removed Reality, we have the Choice to search and find Reality.
If we removed our-Self, we have the Choice to search and find our-Self.
Either way, we have lost Reality and we have lost our Self.
This was no accident.
It was and is deliberate Choice.
The Collective formed around this universal Choice.
There are only a few who struggle to emerge from the Collective.
They are the Observers who see beyond the walls of Creation, who see
beyond the dreams and desires of those that Perceive who they are
and what they desire to be.

At First Cause, way beyond The Creation, way beyond The Big Bang,
way, way beyond, at the Choice of Consciousness to Observe or Perceive it-Self,
---at the Choice of Consciousness to Observe or Perceive Reality as
Self and Other, the Singularity of Self and the Singularity of Other,
Each Entity
Each separate, distinctive Entity,
Entity that is Infinite-----
the very Infiniteness we dream of and desire.
There, at the real First Cause,
where we created and entered the creation we created,
thereby creating and entering a process of Division,
-----the process of division that divided Self.

Without Other, Self divided Self at every layer, at every level, at every generation,
of history,
at every beat of the Time we created,
in the Place we created, and out of the Substance we created from.
Why?
Why did we Choose to eliminate the Reality of Existence
for the creation of our desire to Become?
What do we want to Become?
Would we not have been what we really are if we could only have been content with Being?
'Being' is Infinite Reality of the Entity of Self and the Entity of Other.
What caused Consciousness to Choose as it has?
What is that basic impulse----a feeling,---a thought?
Do I think and then feel/
or do I feel and then think?
Was feeling and thinking the cause of the choice or was the choice the cause of our
feeling and thinking?
We have certainly run the gamut of both.

There was and is, Self and Other.
Consciousness was and is aware of Self and Other.
Consciousness experiences Self and Other through either Observation or Perception.
Consciousness feels through its experience of Observation or Consciousness feels through
its experience of Perception.
From here, Consciousness thinks and chooses.
Consciousness has divided It-Self.

There is the Collective and there is those parts, those individuals that do not belong
in the Collective because of their Choice to Observe rather than to Perceive.
Now we are getting someplace!

Consciousness must experience Reality through Self and Other differently through
Observation or through Perception.
Observation experiences through Being.
Perception experiences through Becoming.
Observation knows 'what is' as 'what is'.
Perception does not accept 'what is' as 'what is',
indicating that Perception Compares.
What perception Compares is Self to Other.
Perception must feel Other to be beyond Self,
while Observation is comfortable and totally accepting of Other.
This must, then, be a basic instinct of humanity,
to compare Self to Other, to react by dreaming  and desiring to Become Other,
to abandon Self to transfer Self onto and into Other,
with the intention of loosing which----Self or Other?.
In Perception, one is lost within the other.
In Perception, does Consciousness loose Other through blockage
of Creation, as in the extinction of Reality?
or
does Consciousness loose Self through dreams and desire to Become the Other,
as in assumng to become the Other through discovering the Essence of Other----
Entity and Infiniteness.
Possibly through creating Entity and Infiniteness through its ability to feel
and to think? 
In Perception, one must be canceled out-----
Self, through creation, canceling out Other to become Self,
or Self canceling out Self to Become the Other.